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Subject: Re: About Transparent Superpages and Non-transparent superapges
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On 20 September 2013 08:20, Sebastian Kuzminsky <S.Kuzminsky@f5.com> wrote:


> It's transparent for the kernel: all of UMA and kmem_malloc()/kmem_free()
> is backed by 1 gig superpages.
>

.. not entirely true, as I've found out at work. :(



-adrian